Soul Calibur IV Confirmed

While discussing the future of Dragon Ball Z fighting games in an exclusive interview with Namco Bandai Chief Producer, Daisuke Uchiyama, GameDaily learned that both the Tekken and Soul Calibur teams were working on new titles in their respective series. It's been known for some time that Namco has been working on Tekken 6 for the PlayStation 3, but this is the first confirmation that a new Soul Calibur title is in the works.

I think its disrespectful how some of the Japanese Developers try to give XBOX fans old ports of games previously released on PS2, I have both systems, but I favor my XBOX over PS2. I don't mind if each system gets its share of exclusive's thats good, but in my opinion some of the Japanese Dev. favor Sony heavily, then try to make money off of XBOX owners with old ports (sloppy seconds)...I REALLY would like to see Soul Calibur 4 on the 360, but its too late to get my money for SC 3. Either they make it multi-platform from the begining or an exclusive, but I'm not going to run out and buy an old port once its not selling on the PS brand console anymore, I hope sales for SC 3 suck and sales for SC 4 turn out pretty good for the 360, hopefully they will get the message not to bull$h!t us with old ports, but hey this is just my opinion.

So when the American Compan favor the 360, it's doesn't matter amd that is good right? But when a Japanese company favor there Japanese company they are just BullSh1te now righ?

You could try hard with your logic, but you are just pathetic for stating some BS. And about SC 3 to fail in sales, well I'm sorry to inform you that it didn't suck in sales and it been out for the longest time now.

It is contrary to the Sony DNA that even the suckiest PlayStation guys will sell. Maybe you people may not like it but other people in other countries will. Oh yeah and just to shake things up a bit, 5 years after the PS3 launch WE WILL be another PS3. I'm not going to say anything but its just going to happen. And boy are you guys in for a surprise! So Sony is right, the PlayStation 3 will be now and the future!

In particular, the article focused on how the industry is currently at a mini-nadir of the boom-and-bust cycle typically generated by the transition from current- to next-generation consoles. It quoted Soleil-Hudson Square Research's Daniel Ernst as saying that his fellow analysts have dropped their original estimates of 2006 game revenue by as much as 60 percent.

Ernst also said that now even the most optimistic analysts peg the next-gen-platform installed base as reaching only 15 million by year's end. Of those, he estimates that 12 million will be Xbox 360s--and the rest a hodgepodge of Nintendo's affordable Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3. http://www.gamespot.com/new...

Most American game developement studios make their games multiplatform with very few exclusive for each platform which is a good thing. EA is a good example of this. The only ones that do not are those that are owned or partially owned by M$. Yes, there are a few that tend to favor M$ when it comes to FPS genere, but for good reason because most American gamers love FPS's unlike the majority of Japanese gamers who don't like FPS's, so they don't sell particularly well in Japan, thats a big difference between some of the Japanese dev.'s who have a biased attitude and simply favor Sony just because its a Japanese company even though, Americans have proven in the past they would enjoy playing games like SC3. Americans actually will buy large quantities of any genre FPS, RPG, Fighting, Sports, and etc. as long as its a good game, becuase we are alot more diversified, unlike Japanese who are mostly loyal to Japanese dev's. Now listen, like I said I favor Xbox brand but I own a PS2, (actually I have all 3 consoles) but for those that only have a Xbox and would have bought SC3 when it first released had it not been for Namco efforts to cater to the Japanese market by making it exclusively for PS2, which like I said before is OK, I know each platform will get its share of exclusives....I just don't like how some Japanese dev's cleary favor Sony (Square Enix is a good example)just because its a Japanese company and now when the sales have dried up on that platform, they say "OK Americans now you can play this old-outdated-ported SC3, while we finish up SC4"....thats when it becomes A SLAP IN THE FACE!....now finally it seems like you are almost proving my point for me when you say and I quote "And about SC 3 to fail in sales, well I'm sorry to inform you that it didn't suck in sales and it been out for the longest time now" if you had any common sense then you would know that I'm not talking about SC3 sales failing on the PS2, (read carefully next time)I'm saying that I hope they don't sell well on the 360 if they port it now and I hope that SC4 does pretty good whether its exclusive or not so the Japanese dev. will get the message that we 360 fans don't want their old ports, 2 or 3 yrs. down the line when Japanese fans are finished with them....so again this is my opinion and I stand by what I said.

How bout cliffy B, and the creator of Fable? They bought down right state that they don't like Sony, and will not be developing for Sony. They said that they rather stay with the american market and work with M$. NOw if that is not a slap in the face than what was it? You only look at it one direction but you can't seem to look at your own flaw.

OK, its funny that you deny what I'm saying but then you make statements that only back up what I said previously. Cliffy B. works for Epic which signed a deal with M$ to make some exclusive titles, Epic uses the Unreal 3 Engine heavily to run its games which is a good FPS engine which is why they making more games exclusively for M$ since Japanese gamers don't like FPS's that much, which is common knowledge to anybody who knows anything about the videogame market...thats different from Namco making SC3 only for PS2 which Americans have shown they do like (it was awesome on Dreamcast) So the two examples you gave, supports my point when I said the ones that favor M$ do so because FPS's sell very well on the platform or the development studio is owned by M$...Epic signed a contract in 2003 to make some exclusives with M$, and Fable is made by Lionhead which is owned by M$, for God sake, lol....talk about flaws. here are a couple of links http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...http://www.gaming-age.com/n... .....now if you still don't understand the difference between being paid to make an exclusive or actually being owned by a parent company vs. simply having a biased attitude toward American gamers like Square Enix does then there is no hope for you.